Engulfing Candle Indicator

ℹ️ What are Bullish and Bearish Engulfing Patterns?
Engulfing pattern is a reversal candlestick pattern. This pattern is composed of two candles with opposite color bodies. The reason behind the engulfing pattern is fairly simple. An engulfing pattern occurs when the bulls (or bears) are running out of steam during the first candle, and the opposite side of the market makes a strong move during the second candle.

There are two types of engulfing pattern:
• Bullish engulfing pattern
• Bearish engulfing pattern

Bullish Engulfing Pattern
A bullish engulfing pattern occurs in a downtrend and consists of a white candle (bullish candle) whose body completely engulfs the body of the previous down candle (bearish candle).



We can see that the second candle's body is bigger than the previous candle. The second candle engulfs the first bearish candle. This suggests that the bulls have taken control of a pair's price movement from the bears. This suggests that pair's downtrend has finished and an uptrend or a correction should now occur.

Trade using Bullish Engulfing Pattern
On confirmation of bullish engulfing pattern we can enter a long position. Stop loss can be placed just below the bottom of the formation. Engulfing patterns in general have no inherent take profit level. So take profit orders should be placed according to results of other analyses.

Bearish Engulfing Pattern
A Bearish Engulfing Pattern is the exact opposite of bullish engulfing pattern; it occurs in an uptrend and consists of a down candle (black candle) whose body completely engulfs the body of the previous up candle (white candle).



We can see that the second candle's body is bigger than the previous candle. The second candle engulfs the first bullish candle. This suggests that the bears have taken control of a pair's price movement from the bulls. This suggests that pair's uptrend has finished and a down trend or a correction should follow.

Trade using Bearish Engulfing Pattern
On confirmation of bearish engulfing pattern that is when the second candle closes, we can enter a short position. Stop loss can be placed just above the bottom of the formation. While trading this pattern we should know that this pattern sometimes does not result in an actual reversal of the trend, but can often result in a consolidation or a retrace instead.

The buying/selling pressure that causes the engulfing candle may occur due to spontaneous events such as large non-speculative flows, or profit taking near a significant support or resistance level.